Senior Digital Product Owner

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; Mossville (IL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. seeks a Senior Digital Product Owner to lead VISTA development and adoption within the SPPD Digital Supply & Capacity Planning team.

You will shape product vision, roadmap, and release strategies, working with business process owners to translate challenges into actionable requirements. Based in Mossville, IL or Irving, TX, you will partner with software engineering, analytics, and user teams to drive data-driven decisions across material flow, inventory, and assets, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field and relevant experience.
• Experience delivering digital products, analytics platforms, or software solutions.
• Ability to translate requirements into scalable digital solutions and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Experience with data platforms and analytics tools to influence decision-making.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with adoption and driving continuous product improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, adoption, and improvement of the VISTA digital product.
• Define product vision, roadmap, priorities, and release strategies.
• Collaborate with process owners to identify and prioritize opportunities.
• Translate challenges into actionable product requirements and user stories.
• Monitor product performance, adoption metrics, and outcomes.
• Lead UAT planning, execution, and governance processes.

Skills

Software Engineering

Software Product Business Knowledge

Business Analysis

Software Change Request Management

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Software Problem Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, or a related quantitative discipline

Tools

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Data Visualization Tools

Data Engineering Concepts

Job description

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Caterpillar's SPPD Digital Supply & Capacity Planning team is seeking a Senior Digital Product Owner to lead the development, adoption, and continuous improvement of VISTA (Visualized Insights: Supply Chain, Transportation, and Assets). VISTA is a critical enterprise digital product that enables strategic decision-making by visualizing material flows and key business measures at the part-number level, from external suppliers through Caterpillar facilities and ultimately to dealers.

What you will do:

Digital Product Leadership

• Provide day-to-day leadership for the development, quality, adoption, and continuous improvement of the VISTA digital product.
• Define and maintain product vision, roadmap, priorities, and release strategies.
• Coordinate with business process owners to identify, evaluate, and prioritize development opportunities.
• Translate business challenges into actionable product requirements and user stories.

Software Product Management

• Lead the execution and tracking of product enhancements, maintenance releases, and defect remediation.
• Partner with software engineering teams to design, build, test, and deploy new capabilities.
• Manage software change requests and enhancement opportunities originating from business users and stakeholders.
• Monitor product performance, adoption metrics, and business outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement & User Experience

• Gather, consolidate, and prioritize feedback from users and business partners.
• Serve as the primary product expert by creating product documentation, user guidance, and training materials.
• Partner with end users to understand evolving business needs and improve user adoption.
• Communicate product strategy, priorities, and progress to functional and leadership stakeholders.

Analytics & Supply Chain Solutions

• Collaborate with Digital Supply & Capacity Planning teams to integrate data, applications, and analytical insights.
• Support visualization and analysis of material flow, transportation, inventory, supplier, and asset-related data.
• Leverage quantitative and analytical approaches to improve decision-making capabilities.
• Partner with supply chain stakeholders to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.

Product Quality & Governance

• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, execution, and validation activities.
• Identify and resolve design, reliability, performance, and maintenance issues.
• Ensure solution quality through testing disciplines, release validation, and user feedback loops.
• Support governance processes related to software product lifecycle management.

What skills you will have:

• Software Engineering: Strong understanding of software development practices and the ability to partner effectively with development teams to deliver new capabilities and enhancements. In practice, this includes translating business needs into product requirements, prioritizing development work, guiding feature delivery, and ensuring solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with user expectations.
• Software Product Business Knowledge: Demonstrated ability to manage and evolve software products that deliver measurable business value. In this role, you will serve as the product owner for VISTA, defining product priorities, managing the product roadmap, understanding user needs, and ensuring the platform continues to support strategic supply chain decision-making. You should be comfortable balancing current business requirements with future product vision while driving adoption across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Business Analysis: Ability to identify business needs, evaluate opportunities, and recommend solutions that create value. In this role, you will work closely with supply chain process owners and business partners to gather requirements, analyze workflows, and translate complex operational challenges into digital solutions that improve visibility, planning effectiveness, and decision-making.
• Software Change Request Management: Experience managing feature requests, enhancement opportunities, and product improvements throughout the software lifecycle. Successful candidates will be skilled at evaluating competing priorities, balancing business impact against technical effort, and maintaining a transparent and value-driven product backlog.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Ability to design, coordinate, and execute user acceptance testing activities to ensure products meet business requirements and user expectations. This role will lead testing efforts for new functionality, establish acceptance criteria, coordinate stakeholder participation, and validate successful deployment of product enhancements.
• Software Problem Management: Knowledge of tools, processes, and best practices for identifying, investigating, and resolving software issues. In this role, you will partner with users and development teams to troubleshoot problems, manage defect resolution, communicate status updates, and ensure product reliability and performance.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, or a related quantitative discipline; or an advanced degree with relevant experience.
• Experience applying quantitative, analytical, statistical, modeling, or operational research techniques to solve complex business problems and inform decision-making.
• Proven success leading or supporting digital products, analytics platforms, or software solutions within product ownership, product management, business analysis, or similar role.
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into scalable digital solutions and collaborate effectively with software developers, data engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and modern analytics technologies, including SQL, Python, Snowflake, data visualization tools, and data engineering concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage data and insights to improve supply chain, logistics, transportation, inventory, manufacturing, or operational performance.
• Experience leading user adoption, gathering customer feedback, prioritizing enhancements, and driving continuous product improvement.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex analytical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with graph databases, supply chain analytics platforms, digital supply chain visibility tools, or advanced analytics technologies is preferred.

Additional information:

• Primary Work Location: This role is based in Mossville, IL or Irving, TX and will require working onsite five days a week.
• Relocation: Relocation assistance is not available.
• Travel: This role may require occasional travel up to 10%.
• Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship, international assignments, and payroll transfers are not available for this role.

Summary Pay Range:

$112,710.00 - $183,140.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

October 1, 2026 - October 15, 2026

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.